The Admiral of Hogwarts

In a room in the basement of Hood Manor in London, Hugo was sitting cross-legged, diligently guiding the power converted from Fate Points to help the system spirit within his soul take shape.

This task was actually a bit like sculpting clay figures, and with a template to follow, even if Hugo's sculpting skills were poor, he could still complete the process.

However, this kind of thing was a standard case of being easier said than done, so it wasn't until a full 24 hours later that Hugo opened his bloodshot eyes.

"Admiral, are you alright?" Seeing Hugo supporting himself on the ground, trying to stand up, but his hand went weak and he sat back down, Victory, who was on duty in the room, immediately rushed over to support him, then helped him to a seat.

"I'm fine, it's just that I held one position for too long, and my legs went numb." Feeling the tingling sensation in his legs gradually receding, Hugo smiled and said to Victory beside him and Hood, who rushed in after hearing the commotion.

Here, it must be said that the avatar effects Hugo used to strengthen himself were indeed powerful. If it were a normal person, being in one position for 24 hours without moving would be enough to send them to the hospital, rather than being fine after moving around a bit like this.

After the uncomfortable feeling in his legs passed, Hugo began to sense the system spirit that had already taken shape. Soon, a milky white light gate opened, and then a little girl hopped out.

"Why is this Aila a smaller version?" Looking at the blonde, blue-eyed little one in front of him, a puzzled expression appeared on Hugo's face.

Compared to the Aila in his memory, this Aila was several sizes smaller from all angles.

"Greetings, my Admiral." This Aila ran up to Hugo, saluted, and said. "Please rest assured, I can complete all the tasks you assign."

"Welcome back to the team." Only after Aila finished reporting in front of him did Hugo realize that the experience of ship girls and system spirits had nothing to do with their appearance.

And this was also the most covert aspect of ship girls. At least for most people, it was hard to believe that a girl who looked only a dozen years old had experienced the most brutal battlefield.

After a brief inquiry, Hugo discovered that Aila was still significantly different from ordinary ship girls and system spirits. The biggest difference was that she still retained some memories from Ariana.

Of course, most of the memory loss actually had little to do with Hugo. On the contrary, it was because of the modification that Aila was able to recall certain memories in an orderly manner.

After all, the long-term symbiosis with the Obscurus had seriously affected Ariana's memory and soul. Now, being able to recover so much was already an unexpected surprise.

Unlike Victory, Aila's power was more inclined towards production planning. When she was connected to the Admiral Network, the efficiency of any production work done by the ship girls would be greatly improved.

In addition, Aila herself was also an expert in resource and labor management, capable of helping the ship girls develop reasonable action plans.

And this summoning was also very important to Hugo. In addition to summoning a new system spirit, the most important thing was that his own level had been improved.

The most obvious difference was that in the past, he could only acquire avatars worth one Fate Point, but now, multiple avatars worth three Fate Points were all open to him.

Unlike the previous low-level avatars that only allowed people to strengthen their strength, soul, and other aspects and gain some ordinary skills, these intermediate avatars not only had a greater degree of strengthening, but also came with a series of extraordinary powers.

"Let me see the new avatars." Hugo excitedly opened the avatar list, only to find that there were now three optional avatars for him to choose from.

"Why aren't any of them human?" The first thing Hugo did when he saw the avatars was to complain subconsciously, because among the avatars that appeared in front of him now were a salted fish, a polar bear, and a warship main gun.

But no matter what, these avatars were obviously more powerful than the previous avatars. So, after taking a few deep breaths to calm his heart, Hugo spent 9 Fate Points to buy these avatars.

Sure enough, although these avatars looked terrible in appearance, they were actually not bad. At least each avatar brought Hugo an unprecedented power.

For example, the fish avatar allowed Hugo to transform into fish and survive underwater, allowing him to stay underwater for a long time like a ship girl without the aid of any external objects or magic.

The polar bear enhancement also had the same transformation ability, and also came with greatly strengthening Hugo's original physical fitness, which was equivalent to the limit of human beings, to the level of a polar bear.

This enhancement was not very meaningful to Hugo. Although the power of a polar bear was already very strong as a land animal, it was still far from being comparable to the steel bodies of the ship girls. So Hugo was still not as good as any ship girl.

As for the third main gun avatar, it was the most useful of the three. In addition to strengthening his skin, muscles, and bones to a level similar to steel, it also allowed him to have the firepower projection ability of a German 127mm caliber gun.

"That is to say, my current combat power is equivalent to a metal polar bear with a destroyer gun." After reading the powers attached to these avatars, Hugo muttered softly.

Although using such words to describe the current situation sounded a bit strange, it could perfectly describe his unique combat level after being strengthened.

After completing his own strengthening, the next step was the summoning of ship girls. Considering the imminent outbreak of war, the list of ship girls this time was the result of everyone's discussion.

"All big ships—" Hugo said after taking a look at the list, "Fortunately, I made a big move before and obtained a series of Fate Points, otherwise I wouldn't be able to recruit these ship girls."

This list was mainly composed of American ship girls, in addition to the Iowa-class four sisters, it also included several American ship girls that had been in service until the Cold War era.

It had to be said that ship girls, combined with magic, were very powerful in covert operations. They could even take items from the four Iowa-class active warships that could be used as summoning coordinates.

After all the items were in place, the summoning work began. As one bright light after another lit up, one ship girl after another was summoned. Soon, this not-so-large room was almost filled with ship girls.

Because of the impending war, this time, in addition to the Iowa four sisters, there were all five Essex-class ship girls from the game who had been active until the Cold War era.

In addition, Hugo also summoned Yubari and Hermione's sister ship Dido, Sirius and Argonaut, a total of four light cruiser ship girls and the destroyer ship girl Lightning.

Among them, Yubari was to strengthen everyone's research capabilities, while the three Dido-class ship girls were to help their sister master the power of ship girls as soon as possible.

As for Lightning, it was randomly drawn, mainly to consume the last bit of Fate Points. After all, in this time of preparation for war, increasing any amount of strength would increase the chances of winning.